Large collection of Free Learning Material

Got some free time and want to spend it to learn something new, here is a list of some of the resources you can use for learning new topics in science and technology or some new programming languages. Some of these include E-books from  NASA and Microsoft and lectures and notes from other sources

Another Earth Like Planet Found 12 Light Years Away

A team of astronomers have announced that Tau Ceti - a star 12 light years away from Earth-  has five planets revolving around it and one of them may be in the habitable zone of the star. 

Some of The Free Blogging Platforms

A blog is personalized webpage or web gallery where you can share your thoughts , experience and memories and  get paid for that too.  In modern times, blogging has come as powerful way for people to express themselves. 

Any individual, institution or a company can create a blog to share photos, memories and expressing their thoughts without spending anything( in most cases). A popular blog can have audience any part of the globe.

500 new phases of matter based on quantum physics defined

In a recent paper in Science , some physicists successfully place a system which can classify symmetry protected phases. Physicists have classifed matter in new kind of order called topology rather than the classical model. Condensed matter physics – the branch of physics responsible for discovering and

describing most of these phases – has traditionally classified phases by the way their fundamental building blocks – usually atoms – are arranged. The key is something called symmetry.

Traditionally the matter has been classified as solid, liquid, gases and plasma based on the symmetry of the material. For example, going through the crystals of liquid water, one would see the same amount of atoms coming from top,

21st December- Another fake end of the world

21st December claimed to be the end of the world, has come out to be another fake incident regarding the end of the world. In fact it can be considered as the prank of the decade.

Based on certain Maya calendars scholars  and people around the world start spreading and believing that world is really going to end on 21st December 2012 by some natural disaster or by some divine force. There was even a movie grossing $769 million on the box-office based on the prediction.

Getting desired results from google

Google is the most widely used search engine. But it has lots more up its sleeves than just showing simple search results. Using some of the following tricks you can get a lot of  detailed results from Google search which are generally unknown.

Exact Words and Phrases:

One of the most basic and widely known search tricks is using quotation marks to search for an exact phrase. For example, if you seaerch "Hello World" you’ll only get pages that contain the word “Hello” followed by the word “World.”

Valve Updates its online gaming platform

Valve has done major updates to Steam- the world's largest online gaming platform. The creator of some of the best-selling games including the likes of Counter Strike and Team Fortress has announced a major update coming to the Steam Community.

The update mainly focuses on the user-created screenshots, videos and workshop items for games across steam while making it easier for the gamers to discuss their games. Every games will now include a new game hub. The hubs will highlight some of the most popular user-generated content as rated by the community and combine it with related news, discussions, and comments for the game all in one central location.


"The New Steam Community is all about showing off the best content that gamers have created," says Valve in their blogpost. "With over 89 million screenshots, videos, Steam Workshop maps, levels, mods, and items, plus news articles and product updates, the community has created an unbelievable wealth of content around their favorite games."

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games and digital entertainment, with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 2000 titles offered.

The update is expected to be rolled out  in between 13th and 16th August.

Anti-Piracy campaign wins another fortress

Seems like anti-Piracy campaign is hitting and hitting hard against pirate websites. Earlier Demnoid was shut down by the authorities in Ukraine after suffering a massive DDos (Distributed Denial of Service attack and  today Google has written in a blog post that they are going to lower the rankings of the websites in their search results which are known to have violated copyright laws.

Google writes in its blogpost," Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results. This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily"

Google Beefs up its search engine

Search giant Google has added some new features to its Google search. The search results, as it says, will now be more accurate and better linked to the search term entered. These additions further improve the standard of the world's most widely  used search engine.

NASA Attempts for Mars Agian in Search Of Life.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is expected to land on the red planet on 6th August at 5:31am GMT. The $2.4 billion dollar machine is on its Mars mission for finding the remnants of life on Mars.

Scientists have found signs of water at Earth's closest neighbor, hinting some form of life might have existed there in the past, though it is now a dry planet with dust storms and extreme winters.

Google shuts down its services again, says its for the better

Search giant Google is again set to shut down some of its services which it says weren't as useful as anticipated. Google announced shutting down of some of its services last month also.

Among the services set to be discontinued are Google Apps for Teams introduced in 2008. It was meant to collaborate applications from Google like Google Docs, Google Calendar and other non-email apps. The accounts of Google Apps for teams will be turned into personal Google Accounts from 4th September, 2012.

RIM launches Another Playbook Tablet

In a move to maintain its competitiveness Research In Motion(RIM) has launched another playbook tablet in its home country in Canada. The new tablet has a built in support for the faster 4G LTE Networks which its predecessors lacked.

 

India loses a tight match against Netherlands after giving a tough fight to the dutch. Van Der Horst scored the first for the world's no. 3 in 20th min. The dutch went up 2-0 at the end of first half with Roderick scoring the 2nd in 29th min. India came right back in the came scoring two goals in just 4mins and equalizing but the dutch got better of them in the end when Van Der Weerden hit the ball on top left corner on a penalty corner. Dharamveer scored for India in the 44th min while Shivendra scored in the 48th min.

Spain Football Team Out of London Olympics

Today at St. James Park, Newcastle, the European  football giant Spain lost their 2nd straight match in the London Olympics against Honduras by a margin of 1-0. With this defeat Spain, who was hoping to bring in Gold medal, have been eliminated from the Olympics 

Three players combined for Bengtson’s third of the tournament during a break down the left in the seventh minute. Bengtson cut inside and the striker jumped over a defender to power in a header past Spain goalkeeper David de Gea.

Microsoft Announces New Computer Peripherals for Windows 8

Microsoft announces a new lineup of hardware as the launch of windows 8 is coming near on October 26. Microsoft hardware has announced several new computer peripherals, all finely tuned for windows 8 . These are including the Bluetooth capabilities for the more mobile devices-tablets and phones- as well.

In the coming weeks, Microsoft will launch two new Bluetooth enabled keyboards and two new mice to the market. Also with the release of Windows 8 Microsoft will release updated windows 8 gestures for the Microsoft Touch Mouse. Microsoft has named these as - the Wedge Touch Mouse, the Wedge Mobile Keyboard, the Sculpt Touch Mouse and the Sculpt Touch Keyboard.

Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse

Apple Samsung US Patent Trial on Monday.

Apple and Samsung Electronics  will battle another trial on Monday for their supremacy in  smartphone market in a federal courtroom in San Jose,California. This trial is  said to be one of the biggest ever technology trials in history. It could well reshape a the smartphone market.

The stakes are high with Samsung facing potential US sales ban of its Galaxy smartphones and tablet computers, and Apple in a test of its patent strategy. Both sides are seeking financial damages from the other.  Samsung is the world's biggest smartphone maker overtaking Nokia and Apple. Together, Samsung and Apple account for more than half of smartphone sales initially.

Apple sued Samsung last year claiming its smartphones copied the iPhone and ipad. Samsung also sued Apple and since then the two have expanded their fight to courtrooms in nearly a dozen other countries.
 

Apple's Upto Its Own iglass

 Apple Inc. is upto its own version of Google Glasses. Today the Cupertino based company has been awarded a patent of a wearable HUD that has the ability to display images, videos, apps and other content on the glasses using LCD projectors . With this Apple's also coming into the field of glasses after Google.

But Apple’s glasses would not have the projector in front of the eyes, instead it will be on the side of the eyeglasses.Apple’s patent describes a method in which the image travels through a special glass to land directly into the user’s pupils, thus creating a total immersive experience.

Google Fiber- Google's Ultra-High Speed Internet Service

Google unveils the ultra-high speed internet service Google Fiber. As claimed by Google Its is capable of delivering speeds of 1000Megabytes/Sec more than 100 times the internet speeds of an average user.

 

London Olympics

The biggest sport event in the world is about to start in about a day at the Olympic Stadium London. With a capacity of about 80,000, the Olympic Stadium in London will feature 'Isles of Wonder', the opening ceremony for the London Olympics 2012.

Oscar winning director Danny Boyle has been made the Artistic Director of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony By LOCOG (London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games), the organizing group of the Olympics.  

The 1981 movie 'Chariots of Fire' has been set the the recurring theme in promotion
for the Olympics which depicts the story of two British athletes in the 1924 Olympics.

 

The team behind Opening Ceremony